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The thought of you,
brings peace to my heart.
The way you were
when our love did start.
The warmth of your breath,
along the side of my cheek,
reminded me of the saying,
"Love is not for the weak."

The air was Plein.
Purple it was,
to capture the colors
with a lighting of Stars
and think of the planets,
of Jupiter and Mars
or the rings of Saturn,
would turn your head.
Why are those planets
just orbs of the dead?

My words
are the extension
of what's in my Soul,
for I speak the truth,
it's what I say
and I'll write of the truth,
every hour of every day.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

Why, sometimes, does part of the Sun's atmosphere leap into space? The reason lies in changing magnetic fields that thread through the Sun's surface. Regions of strong surface magnetism, known as active regions, are usually marked by dark sunspots. Active regions can channel charged gas along arching or sweeping magnetic fields -- gas that sometimes falls back, sometimes escapes, and sometimes not only escapes but impacts our Earth. The featured one-hour time-lapse video -- taken with a small telescope in France -- captured an eruptive filament that appeared to leap off the Sun late last month. The filament is huge: for comparison, the size of the Earth is shown on the upper left. Just after the filament lifted off, the Sun emitted a powerful X-class flare while the surface rumbled with a tremendous solar tsunami. A result was a cloud of charged particles that rushed into our Solar System but mostly missed our Earth -- this time. However, enough solar plasma did impact our Earth's magnetosphere to create a few faint auroras.

Video by Stéphane Poirier

There is no love,
like a lost love to thee,
for what you once wanted,
you can no longer see.

Emotional times,
are now in our life.
Together, forever,
as a man and a wife.
Long were the years,
long may they reign,
the string will be broken
and here I'll remain.
What sadness there is,
I cannot explain,
the last time I heard,
you speak out my name.
Yet life will continue,
long and beyond,
as I will remember
the love I had found.

No one cared
like you did
for me.
Now you
no longer care,
lost, I am,
in your memory.

A twinkling of Stars,
when they do their dance,
is the prelude for love,
if you are given the chance.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day:

To some it looks like a cat's eye. To others, perhaps like a giant cosmic conch shell. It is actually one of brightest and most highly detailed planetary nebula known, composed of gas expelled in the brief yet glorious phase near the end of life of a Sun-like star. This nebula's dying central star may have produced the outer circular concentric shells by shrugging off outer layers in a series of regular convulsions. The formation of the beautiful, complex-yet-symmetric inner structures, however, is not well understood. The featured image is a composite of a digitally sharpened Hubble Space Telescope image with X-ray light captured by the orbiting Chandra Observatory. The exquisite floating space statue spans over half a light-year across. Of course, gazing into this Cat's Eye, humanity may well be seeing the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years. APOD in world languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Beijing), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, French (Canada), German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Montenegrin, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Turkish, Turkish, and Ukrainian

Photo shared by Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American

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I can't understand.
I cannot surmise
about the thoughts,
behind your brown eyes.
You say, "I love you"
over and over, again.
I know you are afraid
but cannot explain, without logic
or reasoning, which is missing,
in your most beautiful mind.
When you say, "I used to be smart",
I know it is true,
but the one I married,
is no longer you.
I love you.